Items for the blog as file cabinet. RantWoman is not clear whether she looked these items up before or after the most recent Business Meeting but:
The Faith Trust Institute helps different faith communities think about issues of abuse. RantWoman thinks it is never terrible for Friends to realize something important is widely enough understood that Friends do not have to reinvent the wheel. On the other hand, being a non-pastoral tradition we are full of people, even people on pastoral care committees, who cannot be assumed to have encountered any kind of basic counseling training. "We are all ministers of God/ We have not abolished the clergy; we have abolished the laity." This just means needs for some materials are different.
http://www.cpsdv.org/
http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/contact-us
An item about testimonies and healing among Friends from one's experiences of other religions. RantWoman includes thishere partly because many, many people come to Friends fleeing religiously-themed traumatizing and abusive environments in other faith communities.
http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2012/01/trust-first-testimony.html
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